1. Web 2.0 in Higher Education Ellie Kutz, Professor Emerita of English and IT Faculty Liaison, Umass/Boston

2. My argument 1. Changes in technology bring 2. Changes in learners—their experiences and expectations 3. Changes in how we reach and teach those learners 4. With new tools that can better support our educational goals and practices. Web 2.0 Technology provides one important set of tools for Higher Education

3. What is important with any technology of literacy and learning is not just the tools

4. But the ways in which members of a community use those tools

5.  Once, a few literate scribes hand copying manuscripts  Now access for most students to the most current technologies of reading and writing Changes in the technology of literacy

6. Societal changes from  Literacy in hands of a few To  Literacy in hands of many

7. Changes in Social Practices  Writing used for royal and ecclesiastical authority  Writing by anyone, shared with anyone, anywhere.

8. Changes in Modes of Interaction  From face to face  To multi-user electronic environments

9. Outside of School Students interact with sites that  Go beyond providing information  Allowing users To add to what’s there To communicate with each other To add images and sound as well as words

10. In Digital Environments Participants  Learn by doing  Learn from each other  Co-create environments in games and social media

11. Contemporary literacy is increasingly  Interactive  Collaborative  Multi-modal  Unbounded in time and space

12. Web 2.0 Tools Allow us to create  Interactive  Collaborative  Multi-modal  Unbounded learning environments for our classes

13. Not all technology has these characteristics

14. Web 1.0  Limited interactivity (hypertext reading)

15. Web 1.0 in teaching  Online site as repository

16. Web 2.0 Enhances Interactivity  Information-sharing

17. Web 2.0 Encourages Creativity

18. Web 2.0 Supports Collaboration

19. Web 2.0 reaches a public audience

20. Web 2.0 reaches across international boundaries

21. Web 2.0 Builds Local Community

22. Different web 2.0 formats offer different potential for interaction, creativity, and collaboration

23. Using Web 2.0 in Higher Ed can  Extend the classroom with online environments  Enhance in-class learning  Provide tools for collaboration  Provide multi-media learning tools

24. Wikis

25. Blogs

26. Teachers use blogs and wikis  To support student learning  To let students Create pages Compose in multimodal ways, using images and sounds as well as words Interact and collaborate Stay engaged with the work beyond their time in the classroom

27. Examples of Wikis, Blogs, and other Web 2.0 tools used by university faculty